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. >> woodruff: then, we have a newsmaker interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi about the payroll tax cut among other things. >> for individual families, 160 million american families, this will be a boost. the demand that is injected into the economy when people spend this money will be a job creator. >> brown: we begin a new feature: the "daily download" about the presidential campaign and social media. tonight's focus: mitt romney and twitter. >> woodruff: and everything can be done online now, right? not quite, science correspondent miles o'brien examines the logistical and security challenges of internet voting. >> the voting public expects since they can conduct their banking online and they can pay their taxes online. why can't they cast their ballots online? >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and..
. >> woodruff: then, we have a newsmaker interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi about the payroll tax cut among other things. >> for individual families, 160 million american families, this will be a boost. the demand that is injected into the economy when people spend this money will be a job creator. >> brown: we begin a new feature: the "daily download" about the presidential campaign and social media. tonight's focus: mitt romney and twitter. >>...
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. >> nancy pelosi for the hour. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> rose: additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communicationsÑi from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: nancy pelosi is here, she is the minority leader of the house of representatives, she has served in congress for over 25 years, in 2007 became the first female speaker of the house, her commitment toçó democratic politics has made her one of the party's assets as november election approaches, democrats are hopeful they can take back control of the house, i am pleased to have her here back at the table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: you have been driving around, you have been in ten days in nine days, nine days, tet states, what is it you hear and see out there? i mean i realize and i expect you to say pro democratic party things, but what do you see? >> well, i see s
. >> nancy pelosi for the hour. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> rose: additional funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communicationsÑi from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: nancy pelosi is here, she is the minority leader of the house of representatives, she has served in congress for over 25 years, in...
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pelosi who bailed out president bush. it was the republican secretary of the treasury who literally got down on his knees to hurt because he needed her to bring home the vote. she was able to do that. >> abolish bribery in the house and it grinds to a halt. >> see? ok. 26 people dead in a connecticut elementary school. what to do about guns. >> since friday morning, a police officer was gunned down in memphis, leaving four children without their mother. two officers were killed outside a grocery store in topeka. the woman was shot and killed inside of a las vegas casino. three people were shot inside and alabama hospital. a 4-year-old was caught in a drive by in missouri. and taken off life-support justice today. each one of these american was a victim of everyday gun violence that takes the lives of more than 10,000 americans every year. violence that we cannot accept as routine. i will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. >> that was the president on wed
pelosi who bailed out president bush. it was the republican secretary of the treasury who literally got down on his knees to hurt because he needed her to bring home the vote. she was able to do that. >> abolish bribery in the house and it grinds to a halt. >> see? ok. 26 people dead in a connecticut elementary school. what to do about guns. >> since friday morning, a police officer was gunned down in memphis, leaving four children without their mother. two officers were...
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in the senate and nancy pelosi leader of the democrats in the house. >> exactly. this is obama's team, 6:00 sunday night they're meeting in the oval office and the democrats are working out a deal with the republicans that the president doesn't like. at all. and harry reid starts to lay it out and he said, no, i'll turn to my chief of staff, david crone, who presents the plan and then says to the president of the united states "i'm very disappointed in this white house and you because you don't have a plan "b." " and the president gets a little upset and they go back and forth and people in the room who i talked to couldn't believe that the chief of staff to the senate leader is chewing the president out in the oval office never heard of anything like that. >> rose: so what's the lesson of all this? what's the story? what's the headline? >> the headline is better start talking about this in the campaign because we've got... what's the own plan, what's the romney plan? but the other thing is, when you try to peel the onion on this it's all about political will and
in the senate and nancy pelosi leader of the democrats in the house. >> exactly. this is obama's team, 6:00 sunday night they're meeting in the oval office and the democrats are working out a deal with the republicans that the president doesn't like. at all. and harry reid starts to lay it out and he said, no, i'll turn to my chief of staff, david crone, who presents the plan and then says to the president of the united states "i'm very disappointed in this white house and you...
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when a republican president was in the white house, nancy pelosi worked with him on immigration measures, energy measures. this is really the first time in a while the we have seen the house controlled by a different party and using it as political warfare rather than governing. tavis: here comes a politically incorrect question. it may not be the last. but it is the first for this conversation tonight. any of this, or how much of this, has to do with the fact that we have an african american president? there are progressives that will draw a direct line to the fact that it has never been this bad. the lines have never been drawn so starkly. no one has ever stood up and said to a standing president, while they were sitting in the house, "you lie." there were people in congress holding signs. you make the case it has never been this bad. how much of that has to do with wanting to make sure, as mitch mcconnell said, that the president loses, that he does now have a chance at all at a second term? >> i do think there is a great attempt within the republican conference of the house of repres
when a republican president was in the white house, nancy pelosi worked with him on immigration measures, energy measures. this is really the first time in a while the we have seen the house controlled by a different party and using it as political warfare rather than governing. tavis: here comes a politically incorrect question. it may not be the last. but it is the first for this conversation tonight. any of this, or how much of this, has to do with the fact that we have an african american...
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nancy pelosi, who is more responsible for passing health care than anyone else, lost your speakership in the process, she was on her way to the democratic caucus. she went up to george miller, the congressman from california. what great news, she says. george says, you bet your ass. she said, i did. >> could i take 30 seconds? to correct all the errors that we have made about the immigration campaign. number one, it was 5-3 in three provisions. on the central division in the law, show me your papers, it was a unanimous decision against the administration. the legal arguments says the administration is not able to distinguish between the law and its policies. the point is, the administration is saying we do not want to enforce immigration. if you, that is an intention on our prerogative. >> this is an objective analysis. >> show me where i am wrong. >> as nina said, that position is so nuanced, they clearly expected -- >> the chair recognizes your descent, but we have to move on. it was a unanimous decision. >> i read the decision, when we talked about this particular provision, they s
nancy pelosi, who is more responsible for passing health care than anyone else, lost your speakership in the process, she was on her way to the democratic caucus. she went up to george miller, the congressman from california. what great news, she says. george says, you bet your ass. she said, i did. >> could i take 30 seconds? to correct all the errors that we have made about the immigration campaign. number one, it was 5-3 in three provisions. on the central division in the law, show me...
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he is worried that if he makes this kind of deal, and works with nancy pelosi and works with the white house, that he could lose his speakership over. it but he has been moving in this last week, he has been removing recall trants from committee assignments. he has been exercising the powers that he should as a leader. >> president obama is not just sitting there. he has come forward asking to raise the debt ceiling. are you following that? >> yes. >> what do you think of that, and what do you think the congress thinks of that? >> well, it has to be raised. >> that's the power of the purse. >> the power of the purse is the power to spend. congress has already authorized and appropriated all of this money. now, it wants to come back in and prevent the government from paying the debts accrued by congress itself. so there is something absurd in congress coming in behind, and saying all of am money that we appropriated, we -- this money that we appropriated, we don't want to pay for it. we want to default on the national debt. >> if he has the power to raise the debt ceiling, the defacto p
he is worried that if he makes this kind of deal, and works with nancy pelosi and works with the white house, that he could lose his speakership over. it but he has been moving in this last week, he has been removing recall trants from committee assignments. he has been exercising the powers that he should as a leader. >> president obama is not just sitting there. he has come forward asking to raise the debt ceiling. are you following that? >> yes. >> what do you think of...
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." >> you had nancy pelosi taking the position -- $1 million, not $250,000. john mccain has suggested make it $500,000. that is where the movement is going to come, with that number. >> is there a deal in the works behind closed doors that we don't know about? >> i don't think so. public posturing at this point. >> here is the difference since the election. the tea party is not as strong as it was. yes, the members who came back one at gerrymandered districts, but speaker boehner has more control of his caucus this time. >> mitt romney explains why president obama won the election. >> what the president is give them two things -- one, big gift on immigration with the dream act and the amnesty program. no. 2, he put in place obamacare, which basically is $10,000 a family. >> mitt romney explaining to his biggest donors why he lost the election. gov. bobby jindal, chris christie, they don't like that kind of talk. >> well, it is politically suicidal. every once in awhile in my reporterial life i think, you are an idiot -- maybe he misspoke and we were doing him
." >> you had nancy pelosi taking the position -- $1 million, not $250,000. john mccain has suggested make it $500,000. that is where the movement is going to come, with that number. >> is there a deal in the works behind closed doors that we don't know about? >> i don't think so. public posturing at this point. >> here is the difference since the election. the tea party is not as strong as it was. yes, the members who came back one at gerrymandered districts, but...
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. >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi may just have a second career as a stock analyst. her commentary on the markets today was dead on. >> so far, they trust that we would not be so stupid as to go over a cliff. >> reporter: but pelosi made clear what everyone knows-- time is running out to reach a deal by christmas >> we really have to come to some agreement in the next couple of days or the very beginning of next week for us to have engineered our way to a solution. >> reporter: the fiscal cliff is really a negotiation between two men, and one of them today was not sounding very happy. house speaker john boehner brought out the charts to make his case. >> here we are at the eleventh hour, and the president still isn't serious about dealing with this issue right here. it's this issue-- spending. >> reporter: the president left his spokesman to respond that republicans were pushing a plan of fantasy economics that raised more revenues while also cutting taxes on the wealthy. >> what spending cuts have the republicans put forward? the proposal that we've seen is a two-pa
. >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi may just have a second career as a stock analyst. her commentary on the markets today was dead on. >> so far, they trust that we would not be so stupid as to go over a cliff. >> reporter: but pelosi made clear what everyone knows-- time is running out to reach a deal by christmas >> we really have to come to some agreement in the next couple of days or the very beginning of next week for us to have engineered our way to...
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and they would say, well get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, all foreign aid, all earmarks, nancy pelosi situate's airplane, air force one, all congressional pensions and that is four percent of the whole but that is what they believe because they don't want to touch medicare, medicaid and the solvency of social security and defense, and there we are. defense budget comes to the house and they automatically add billions to it, not thinking for god's sake that right now we spend 760 billion a year on defense, and the top 14 countries on earth, including russia and china combined, spend 540 billion and they will say, run that past me again, could you, 760 billion is ours, 540 billion, the richest, best other countries in the world, russia, china, 540 billion. >> rose: we have to do that because of what happened and the conditions for the debt ceiling raising the debt ceiling? >> they are going to have to deal with everything, if you leave out any of the big four, you can't get to where we have to get. you have to have -- you can't -- as erskine says you can't tax your way out of this and c
and they would say, well get rid of waste, fraud and abuse, all foreign aid, all earmarks, nancy pelosi situate's airplane, air force one, all congressional pensions and that is four percent of the whole but that is what they believe because they don't want to touch medicare, medicaid and the solvency of social security and defense, and there we are. defense budget comes to the house and they automatically add billions to it, not thinking for god's sake that right now we spend 760 billion a...
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. >> didn't nancy pelosi say today they would have milestones along the way and that there might be miniature goals as we get to the end? >> yes. >> how do you see that playing out? >> well, i think that this, again -- gwen: is this part of the public? >> this is a sign they have to get this done. there is nobody right now on either side of the aisle who wants to see this happen. i think what you're seeing when harry reid, for instance, is standing there and practically promising that we're going to get a deal before december 31, he stood up there and said that today. they mean business. >> right. >> there are lots of pieces to this. i think what they agreed to today is divide into pieces. how do we deal with the end of the year problem on spending, what do we do about a longer term deficit thing. they're trying to set up a framework to get it done. gwen: the sequester is what they're going to talk about down the road? >> they're probably going to find a settlement for this year, whether they do $100 billion down payment on deficit reduction, which is one year's worth of the sequester while t
. >> didn't nancy pelosi say today they would have milestones along the way and that there might be miniature goals as we get to the end? >> yes. >> how do you see that playing out? >> well, i think that this, again -- gwen: is this part of the public? >> this is a sign they have to get this done. there is nobody right now on either side of the aisle who wants to see this happen. i think what you're seeing when harry reid, for instance, is standing there and...
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and congressional democrats, like house minority leader nancy pelosi, welcomed the president's plan. >> elections have consequences. the president campaigned-- he made it very clear, he made it very clear that he was supporting a tax cut for the middle class, that he wanted the expiration of the tax cuts for the high end. and the american people know that debate, they voted for him. >> warner: still, despite all the tough talk, reporter todd zwillich of wnyc and public radio international says there's more movement behind the scenes than meets the eye. >> there does tend to be a pattern to how big negotiations like this go. the fact that they haven't reached an agreement yet doesn't mean they won't before christmas, doesn't mean they won't before new years. there is a value in doing some public posturing and trying to get the public and the media on your side in these negotiations. the speaker may be right, it may be a stalemate right now. but that doesn't mean a stalemate can't be broken. >> warner: there was no word on when negotiations between the president and republicans will re
and congressional democrats, like house minority leader nancy pelosi, welcomed the president's plan. >> elections have consequences. the president campaigned-- he made it very clear, he made it very clear that he was supporting a tax cut for the middle class, that he wanted the expiration of the tax cuts for the high end. and the american people know that debate, they voted for him. >> warner: still, despite all the tough talk, reporter todd zwillich of wnyc and public radio...
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aides said he made phone calls last night to speaker boehner and house minority leader nancy pelosi, as well as senator reid and his opposite number, minority leader mitch mcconnell. but today, mcconnell gave no indication of movement. >> last night i told the president we'd be happy to look at whatever he proposes, but the truth is we're coming up against a hard deadline here, and as i said this is a conversation we should have had months ago. and republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. >> reporter: adding to the urgency, treasury secretary timothy geithner warned he'll have to begin taking "extraordinary measures" to postpone a government default. the government is on track to hit its borrowing limit on monday, he said with no prospect of congressional action to raise the limit. here now to help us unravel what's going on is todd zwillich. he's washington correspondent for "the takeaway" on public radio international. todd, welcome back. decode this for us. are the players pri
aides said he made phone calls last night to speaker boehner and house minority leader nancy pelosi, as well as senator reid and his opposite number, minority leader mitch mcconnell. but today, mcconnell gave no indication of movement. >> last night i told the president we'd be happy to look at whatever he proposes, but the truth is we're coming up against a hard deadline here, and as i said this is a conversation we should have had months ago. and republicans aren't about to write a...
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so that now we look at what's happening in washington, and, you know, one day it's nancy pelosi saying, "we're not going to compromise," the next day it's john boehner saying it. and then mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate says, you know, what my goal is to make barack obama a one-term president. they're supposed to be leaders of the legislative branch of the government, not party hacks. and we have a system now, you know, that is all about looking toward the next election, how we do that. >> this is a strong indictment of the polarization of the two parties. >> yeah. >> but isn't the country also very polarized? >> the country is very polarized in some senses. but you also find the american people saying, "solve the problem. don't go over a fiscal cliff." or, you know, "pay our bills," or, "do something about the budget." now, i think even though the people tend to not be open to a lot of different views, they want the people they elect to make government work. >> so, we have created a political system that rewards intransigence. >> we've created a system that says,
so that now we look at what's happening in washington, and, you know, one day it's nancy pelosi saying, "we're not going to compromise," the next day it's john boehner saying it. and then mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate says, you know, what my goal is to make barack obama a one-term president. they're supposed to be leaders of the legislative branch of the government, not party hacks. and we have a system now, you know, that is all about looking toward the next...
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. >> woodruff: but house minority leader nancy pelosi fired back that republicans are the ones holding everything up. >> if we were waiting for something, we would say it's well worth the wait. but we're just-- the republicans are just delaying-- just delaying, delaying, delaying, and that's not responsible. >> woodruff: and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke warned again that delay is dangerous. >> well, cleary the fiscal cliff is having affects on the economy, even though we're not yet even reached the point of the fiscal cliff potentially kicking in, it's already affecting biz investment and hiring decisions by creating uncertainty, or creating pessimism. >> woodruff: all of which threatened to cast a pall over the holidays, at the capitol, and just about everywhere else. and that brings us to our continuing series of conversations on this topic. tonight, one of the more outspoken voices against raising taxes. grover norquist is a conservative lobbyist and the president of americans for tax reform. most famously, he's known for getting many elected republicans to sign a pledge to
. >> woodruff: but house minority leader nancy pelosi fired back that republicans are the ones holding everything up. >> if we were waiting for something, we would say it's well worth the wait. but we're just-- the republicans are just delaying-- just delaying, delaying, delaying, and that's not responsible. >> woodruff: and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke warned again that delay is dangerous. >> well, cleary the fiscal cliff is having affects on the economy, even...
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pelosi would deliver, potentially for a deal like 24 with no spending cuts to pass it there, tomorrow or the next day. the house side is unclear at this point. >> woodruff: so todd, you're saying as we sit here this evening, we're hearing there may be a senate vote tonight, the house may vote tomorrow. but at this point, it still is not known the outlines of what a potential deal would look like. >> i think the outlines are known on the tax side. and it was described accurately in your piece there, judy, with the tax rates at 450 for families, dividends would go up, the estate tax part of it. what is important is the one year extension on unemployment benefits. there are 2 million people set to lose their benefits, so that is all in there. everybody must keep in mind that no matter what happens, even if you are under 450 or 250 as the president has been discussing, your taxes are going up tonight because the payroll tax holiday expires, that happens for everybody. they're not going to renew that holiday. so that is important to remember. on the tax side, they appear to be pretty much
pelosi would deliver, potentially for a deal like 24 with no spending cuts to pass it there, tomorrow or the next day. the house side is unclear at this point. >> woodruff: so todd, you're saying as we sit here this evening, we're hearing there may be a senate vote tonight, the house may vote tomorrow. but at this point, it still is not known the outlines of what a potential deal would look like. >> i think the outlines are known on the tax side. and it was described accurately in...
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. >> ifill: we will have an interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi next week. >> suarez: now to the continuing fallout over the obama administration's recent decision on covering contraceptives. leaders in the catholic community are pushing back hard against a new mandate that requires coverage of those benefits under the health reform law. newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser reports on the battle lines from both sides. ♪ >> reporter: holy ghost catholic church in downtown done ver is a popular parish with a chief mission of serving the poor. yesterday the focus was not on charity. it was on a new federal regulation regarding health insurance. from the pulpit, father michael warren had strong words. >> the president of the united states who has recently made a decision to impose upon catholic institutions-- hospitals, schools, charities-- that they must provide for their employees coverage for contraception, coverage for sterilization, coverage for drugs that would induce abortion. without choice. this is in direct contradiction to our gospel values. >> reporter:
. >> ifill: we will have an interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi next week. >> suarez: now to the continuing fallout over the obama administration's recent decision on covering contraceptives. leaders in the catholic community are pushing back hard against a new mandate that requires coverage of those benefits under the health reform law. newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser reports on the battle lines from both sides. ♪ >> reporter: holy ghost...
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pelosi is going to get this job back is to take that gavel and pry it out of my cold stone hands. pretty strong language. >> nobody's going to outwork me and outwork our team in terms of holding on to our majority and taking our message to the american people. this entire election is about the economy. the president's policies have failed. and i want all of my members and candidates and mitt romney and paul ryan to be out there on offense about this election. we have better ideas and we can do better for the american people. >> ifill:. >> woodruff: at the same time, as you know very, very well the favorability ratings for members of congress are lower than they've ever... >> congress isn't on the ballot. congress isn't on the ballot. >> woodruff: you don't think that's a drag... >> no, when you look at the members' numbers, the members' numbers are pretty good. i understand the frustration people t american people have with congress. 435 members of the house, 100 members of the senate. divided government. and it's difficult to get people to work together and get things done. >> wo
pelosi is going to get this job back is to take that gavel and pry it out of my cold stone hands. pretty strong language. >> nobody's going to outwork me and outwork our team in terms of holding on to our majority and taking our message to the american people. this entire election is about the economy. the president's policies have failed. and i want all of my members and candidates and mitt romney and paul ryan to be out there on offense about this election. we have better ideas and we...